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Press Release
Marcel Fratzscher, president of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), will join the first meeting of the UN High-Level Advisory Board (HLAB) on Economic and Social Affairs in New York on 9-10 July 2018.
The Board was set up to support the UN department of economics and social affairs (DESA) by providing advice on broad economic and social issues and making the diverse and valuable ...
06.07.2018
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Weekly Report
The construction of a second Baltic Sea natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany (Nord Stream 2) is very controversial for political, energy economic, and ecological reasons. The project owner and some European energy companies argue that it is a profitable, private-sector investment project that is necessary to secure natural gas supplies for Germany and Europe. However, DIW Berlin analyses show ...
04.07.2018| Franziska Holz, Claudia Kemfert, Anne Neumann
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Report
The current SOEP Wave Report 2017 has been published and is available for download.It contains a look at the important developments in the SOEP-Core samples, innovations at SOEP-IS, the current fieldwork reports of Kantar Public as well as projects and activities of the SOEP Research Data Center. A list of all SOEPpapers and SOEP Survey Papers as well as selected scientific publications of the last ...
02.07.2018
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Weekly Report
The principle of net neutrality was adopted by the European Union as a regulation promoting equality among all data packets in the Internet. Considering net neutrality from a purely economic viewpoint, however, the general possibility to prioritize data packets would likely lead to a more efficient use of existing network capacity. This is particularly applicable given the growth in data traffic and ...
21.06.2018
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Weekly Report
Broadband internet expansion is a topic of widespread discussion in Germany right now. But the country still has not met its own targets. Almost 100 percent of households are supplied with broadband connections with up to six megabits per second, yet Germany has lots of room to catch up when it comes to gigabit-capable connections—particularly in sparsely populated regions. On the demand side, ...
21.06.2018| Claus Michelsen
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Press Release
According to DIW Berlin estimates, the German economy should grow by 1.9 percent this year and 1.7 percent next year. The GDP growth forecast has thus decreased by 0.5 percentage points for this year and by 0.2 percentage points for the coming year compared to DIW Berlin’s March forecast. Essentially, this reflects the markedly increased uncertainty concerning the economic policy environment ...
15.06.2018
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Weekly Report
The political conditions for growth are currently dominated by increased uncertainty; this is particularly weighing on investment activity and slowing down the global economy. DIW Berlin is lowering its forecast slightly for this year and the next to 4.1 percent and 3.9 percent, respectively. However, global expansion appears to remain intact. In developed economies, primarily the good labor market ...
15.06.2018| Stefan Gebauer, Malte Rieth
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Weekly Report
Compared to last year, the German economy is weakening noticeably. Orders from abroad are decreasing and domestic companies are holding back on investments. However, capacity utilization remains high—also because the government will boost the incomes of private households next year. However, above all, incomes are rising noticeably due to the positive situation in the labor market: the unemployment ...
15.06.2018| Simon Junker, Claus Michelsen, Thore Schlaak
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Statement
Marcel Fratzscher, president of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), comments on the latest ECB council meeting as follows:
14.06.2018| Marcel Fratzscher
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Weekly Report
Reorganizing European fiscal policy is a main topic in current reform considerations. In particular, the creation of a European stabilization mechanism is being discussed. This study examines the macroeconomic effects of a stabilization fund, the economic consequences of which are analyzed in an equilibrium model. The model shows that a stabilization fund reduces economic fluctuations and is thus a ...
06.06.2018| Marius Clemens, Mathias Klein
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Report
We are happy to present our recent SOEPnewsletter 119, June 2018.
We
provide you with information about the release 2016 of the SOEP-IS data, which are out now,
give you the opportunity to submit applications to an InGRID summer school on migration research at DIW Berlin,
invite you to an international workshop on longitudinal data management and analysis (CNEF workshop) at DIW Berlin,
give ...
05.06.2018
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Report
The SOEP-IS Release 2016 provides household data from 1998 to bis 2016 and the data from the innovative modules 2011 to 2015.
We will be happy to receive your order. Please use our online form.
More information on data access, sample development, innovative modules and the data files included you will find here.
01.06.2018
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Report
In the data distribution soep.v33.1 (1984-2016) some issues occured, which are described here and can be fixed by the provided scripts.
01.06.2018
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Weekly Report
Between 1991 and 2015, the real disposable, needs-adjusted income of persons in private households in Germany rose by 15 percent on average. The majority of the population has benefited from the growth in real income, but the groups at the lower end of the income distribution have not. Inequality in both market and disposable needs-adjusted household income has remained high. These are the findings ...
24.05.2018| Jan Goebel, Markus M. Grabka
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Weekly Report
This study investigates professional social mobility, i.e., changes in one’s occupational status compared to that of their parents. It uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (Sozio-ökonomisches Panel, SOEP) on middle-aged, western Germans who were born between 1939 and 1971. On average, social status relative to parents has increased (absolute social mobility). However, looking at ...
24.05.2018| Sandra Bohmann, Nicolas Legewie
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Personnel news
Maximilian Bach, a DIW PhD candidate and Research Associate at the Education and Family Department, has received the BeNA Innovation Research Award 2018. The prize was awarded for his current paper "Teacher Incentives and Grade Retention" at this year's BeNA Labor Economics Workshop on May 14.
The GC congratulates Max on his success!
22.05.2018
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Personnel news
Jonas Jessen, from the Education and Family department, has been granted a scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) from June 2018 on.
The Dean of the Graduate Center, Prof. Weizsäcker congratulates him on his success!
18.05.2018
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Weekly Report
In Germany, around 94 percent of children between the ages of three and six attend a day care center. Regarding the remaining six percent, many experts have speculated that children, primarily those from socio-economically disadvantaged households, do not use day care. Based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the Families in Germany survey (FiD), the present study is one of the first ...
09.05.2018| Sophia Schmitz, C. Katharina Spieß
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Personnel news
Wolfgang Zapf, former SOEP Director and longtime supporter and advocate for the SOEP, passed away in late April at the age of 81.
Wolfgang Zapf was instrumental in the founding of the SOEP study in the early 1980s, together with colleagues in the fields of sociology and economics. He has had an enduring influence on the measurement concepts used in the SOEP, and his quality of life concept has become ...
08.05.2018
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Personnel news
Wolfgang Zapf, former SOEP Director and longtime supporter and advocate for the SOEP, passed away in late April at the age of 81.
Wolfgang Zapf was instrumental in the founding of the SOEP study in the early 1980s, together with colleagues in the fields of sociology and economics. He has had an enduring influence on the measurement concepts used in the SOEP, and his quality of life concept has become ...
08.05.2018